The Robert Shaw Reader
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Editor: Dean Robert BlockerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-11
ISBN: 0300104545
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
I had to buy this book for my advanced choral conducting class - and we're assigned just a few passages to read out of it - just reading those few passages has made me want to read the entire thing - Robert Shaw comes across as intelligent but quirky and humorous. I'm enjoying it so far.
Summary of The Robert Shaw Reader
Robert Shaw is considered to be the most influential choral conductor in American history. This is the first collection of his letters and notes about music ever published-at another time, it is the book Shaw would have written himself.The letters are an invigorating mix of music history and analysis, philosophy, inspiration, and practical advice. Shaw examines technique, but only as a means to an end-he moves beyond that, delving into the essence of what music is and what it has to say to us. The heart of the book is composed of Shaw's previously unpublished notes on fifteen major choral works, ranging from Bach's B Minor Mass to Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.
Often inspiring and sometime hilarious, these writings reveal the full breadth of Shaw's knowledge, intensity, and humor.
Robert Blocker is the Lucy and Henry Moses Dean of the Yale School of Music.
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